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Harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees after the 9 11 attacks. That amounted to torture. I think in the midst of a national trauma, and uncertainty as to whether the attacks were going to repeat themselves, whats clear is that the c. I. A. Set up something very fast, without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. The president was responding to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair, Dianne Feinsteins damning report on c. I. A. Interrogations. That said detainees were waterboarded, kept in dungeon conditions while others were naked, hooded and dragged, slapped and pu...

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As Guantanamo inches toward closure, the story of Saifullah Paracha and his son Uzair tells us much about the contradictions of U.S. policy during the global war on terror. Their intertwined stories undercut the notion that Guantanamo was or ever could be a legal system separate and apart from the federal courts.

For us to face up to the fact that when countries are threatened, oftentimes they act rashly in ways that in retrospect were wrong. >> now the president obama is saying that there were clearly wrongs done here. do you think that there will ever be prosecutions? >> no, i don't think so. america rarely holds its officials responsible. in fact the maximum responsibility that's placed is publicity about what people did. if this report had come out in 2009, when president obama was suggesting that officials be held responsible, it might have had an impact. but the c.i.a. was allowed to slow-road it...

The battle in the first place. there's the premise again. the government has not shown that i have 19 clients, i've had two dozen over the years. these men have been in guantanamo for 13 years. the world has changed, they have changed. we've really moved on from 9/11. this, this report is really stuck in the past. it's an anachronism. >> do you believe we will see guantanamo close? >> i do not. i don't because president obama will not allow to bring detainees into the united states. detainees that we won't transfer because the government thinks that they're too dangerous to release. where do t...